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CHARLES DE TELIGNY (c. 1535—1572)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 574 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES DE See also:TELIGNY (c. 1535—1572)  , See also:French soldier and diplomat, belonged to a respected Huguenot See also:family of Rouerque, and received an excellent training in letters and arms at the See also:house of See also:Coligny . Ile was employed on several See also:peace See also:missions; he represented the Protestants before the See also:king, and was entrusted by See also:Conde with the presentation of his terms to the See also:queen-See also:mother in 1567, and in the following See also:year he assisted at the See also:conference at Chalons and signed the peace of Longjumeau, which was destined to be of See also:short duration . On the outbreak of See also:war, he took See also:part in the See also:siege of See also:Poitiers, directed an unsuccessful attack on See also:Nantes, fought bravely under Coligny at Moncontour, and participated in the negotiations ending in the treaty of See also:Saint-Germain (8th of See also:August 1570) . In 1571 he retired to La Rochelle and married See also:Louise de Coligny, but was speedily recalled to See also:Paris to serve on the bi-See also:partisan See also:commission of See also:adjustment . Although he won the See also:special favour of See also:Charles IX., he was one of the first victims in the See also:massacre of St See also:Bartholomew's See also:Day (24th of August 1572) . His remains were taken to the See also:Castle of See also:Teligny in 1617, but eight years later were thrown into the See also:river by the See also:bishop of See also:Castres .

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